My parents were generally very kind and loving and it was not often that corporal punishment was resorted to in our house. Nevertheless, this was the early 1950s and a sore bottom for misbehaving children was by no means the taboo subject it is nowadays.
I remember this occasion very well, as it was the only time I think both my little sister and I got punished at the same time, certainly in front of each other. I think I’d be nine, which would make my sister Sarah six.